Matt Drudge is beating ESPN like a whipping boy today. I first learned about Ben Roethlisberger’s motorcycle accident on Drudge Report at least 15 minutes before ESPN had it.
Now, Drudge is report that Ben is in surgery. No new updates on ESPN.
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Having not seen the Update, I am reading the news headlines on the web tonight. On DallasNews.com I learned that Carlton Dotson has confessed to killing Patrick Dennehy.
A quick trip to HoustonChronicle.com finds the AP story Police: Ex-Baylor basketball player charged with murder. No mention of a confession.
Next stop, Waco Tribune-Herald. The site has not been updated to reflect any news of the day on the story.
Then I headed to over to Austin’s Statesman.com. The site has roughly the same AP article as HoustonChronicle.com, but adds this insightful paragraph:
As he left the court commissioner’s office Monday night, Dotson told a reporter: “I didn’t confess to anything. Call the FBI.” Shortly after his arrest, Dotson had referred all questions to his lawyer.
A look at the nation media shows Matt Drudge linking to the same AP story via WashingtonPost.com. ESPN and FoxNews.com also report the similar stories.
So what is going on here? What do Lee Hancock and Matt Mosley at The Dallas Morning News know that no one else seems to know? Sure the “authorities” are reporting a confession, but shouldn’t his public claim denying a confession stand as the story. Is the affidavit the basis of his confession? Will DallasNews.com pull the headline when no one else is reporting the same story?
Update: DallasNews.com has updated the headline and story on Carlton Dotson. Waco police are now listed as the source for the confession line and while the paper acknowledges Dotson’s denial of a confession. The article has the following header as I type the update at 1:33AM: Last modified: 01:03 AM CDT on Tuesday, July 22, 2003
From HoustonChronicle.com:
Famed TV newsman David Brinkley died late Wednesday in his Houston home. ABC News reported he died of complications from a fall. He was 82.
In a not at all shocking decision the FCC voted 3-2 today to ease rules on media ownership:
At one level, Monday’s vote represents a high-stakes power struggle at FCC headquarters between left-leaning groups—along with a few conservative allies like the National Rifle Association—and free-market groups and Republicans in Congress. The FCC’s tense internal deliberations also highlight an ideological conflict between two wildly different views of how to keep prices low and competition robust: Is it wiser to increase the number of federal regulations or to gradually rescind them?
Although we firmly believe in limited government and the free-market, the influence the big media conglomerates has over American media is staggering. The big companies are sure to grow bigger as a result of the new ruling. Let’s see how things change here in Texas. To that end, we have prepared a review of media ownership in D/FW as of today:
While listening to Dale Hansen on The Ticket today we learned that Mike Hill is gone from WFAA. What the heck is going on over there? Hansen wants to talk about it, but the big wigs at WFAA-parent Belo have put the clamps on any disclosure.
We tried looking around local media sites and don’t see any answers. However, we did learn that Valerie Williams is no longer with News 8 any more either. How did we not notice that?
The Dallas Observer piece outlines some of the same stories that we have heard regarding Tracy Rowlett and Robert Riggs:
Here’s what I’ve been able to piece together: Williams has been disgruntled for a long time with news management at Channel 8, feeling as though decisions were made for reasons that were not ethically sound. Meaning, advertiser concerns and the need to pander to more desirable demographics (read: don’t take on those who pay us money, and while you’re at it, dumb down the stories you are working on) were the driving force behind most decisions made that affected her. When management killed her latest investigation, she saw it as the last straw, giving her notice that she would not renew her contract when it expired at the end of this month.
Not so long ago, News 8 set the standard. Remember the good days with Chip Moody and Tracy Rowlett? Remember when WFAA refused to show NYPD? What has happened to one of the best local TV-news organizations?
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